Yum Brands has promoted Joe Park to chief digital and technology officer. Park will report to Chris Turner, Yum Brands CFO, when he takes the position March 1, according to a press release.

Joe Park. Photo: Yum Brands

Park, who most recently served as chief digital and technology officer for Pizza Hut Global, succeeds Clay Johnson, who will continue with Yum Brands as a senior advisor.

As CDTO, Park will join the Yum Brands Global Leadership Team and oversee the Company's global technology strategy, partnering with the KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and the Habit Burger Grill divisions to ensure the Company provides a best-in-class digital experience for customers and restaurant team members and strong economics for franchisees.

Park joined Yum Brands in 2020 as its first chief innovation officer and has served as Chief Digital and Technology Officer for Pizza Hut Global since 2021. In his most recent role, Park was responsible for leading omnichannel customer experiences, e-commerce and restaurant technologies for more than 19,000 Pizza Hut restaurants in more than 100 countries.

"We're ingraining digital and technology into all aspects of our business with exciting new capabilities that make things easy for customers and restaurant team members, while driving profitable growth for Yum! and our franchisees," Turner said in the press release. "We've made great progress enhancing digital ordering, implementing technologies to improve restaurant operations, leveraging data to enable smart decision-making and piloting emerging technologies, and Joe Park has been an exceptional partner on this journey over the past few years. Joe is an energizing and visionary leader with a proven track record of rapidly deploying modern eCommerce and data platforms and scaling innovative technologies like Dragontail and HutBot across Pizza Hut's global system. I'm confident that Joe will help Yum! continue to strengthen our technology ecosystem and scale our digital solutions at a rapid pace to deliver leading-edge capabilities to our franchisees with advantaged economics."

"I'm incredibly excited to continue working with the talented and dedicated digital and technology team members around the world, and to partner with our world-class franchisees to execute the company's global technology strategy," Park said in the press release. "I'm grateful to have worked alongside Clay Johnson at Yum Brands since 2020 and look forward to continuing to help the Company drive its initiatives to deliver a best-in-class digital experience for customers and restaurant team members.

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